Reply #4: Don't expect so much.

[No Exit]

I still have a lot of friends who are repuke supporters--because unfortunately I used to be a repuke supporter (For a long time--all my adult life, up till the invasion of Iraq.)

Every time I try to persuade them that the repukes are a bunch of criminals who should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail, I always get "Well, what about the DEMOCRATS?? They're WORSE!"

Which is baloney. The democrats are NOT worse. Now, there is a branch of democrats--I call them the big-money democrats--who are as bad as the repukes. But the real democrats are not afraid to come down hard on those bad ones. And I admire that. (See: Joe Lieberman.)

Anyway, here's ALL I want out of the election at the moment: I just want the democrats to achieve a majority in at least one house of congress, so that they can get subpoena power (or, um, like, ANY power.) Then I want to see them use it--and oh, they will.

If the democrats ever horrify, repulse, upset, worry, scare, and disgust me as the republicans do now, I will abandon them. But I don't expect that to happen. And regardless of whether I ever become angry at or disappointed with the dems, it is a fact that I will never, ever, vote republican again. The republican party deserves the Carthage treatment: to be eradicated, and have the ground salted under its feet.